Charter Members

C100’s Charter Members form a global, mission-driven community of influential and experienced Canadians in technology who are committed to supporting, inspiring, and connecting the most promising Canadian entrepreneurial leaders. As leaders who have worked as operators, entrepreneurs and investors (or all three!), C100 Charter Members have been invited to uphold the C100 mission and are active contributors to our program and community.

VP, Ads & Commerce, Google

Previously held executive positions at DocuSign, Citrix, and Salesforce

Co-authored the book Understanding Your Users and is an active speaker, featured in the Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Huffington Post, and TEDx

Twice selected by the Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of Silicon Valley’s “40 Under 40” young tech leaders, Silicon Valley’s 100 Most Influential Women, Forbes list of “Top 10 Rising Stars as the World’s Most Innovative Companies”

CEO & Co-Founder, SVAcademy

Founded Involver (enterprise social media platform acquired by Oracle), a cloud productivity apps platform (which became publicly listed), and a web hosting company while in high school

Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 in America by Inc. Magazine, Top 40 Under 40 by the San Francisco Business Times, Empact 100 Award from Startup America and the Kauffman Foundation, and Top 25 Digital Thought-Leaders by iMedia

Expertise: Building B2B tech companies and empowering the next-generation of entrepreneurs

Canadian Connection: from Burnaby (BC), M.B.A. from Western University

Head of Technology Partnerships, Uber

Previously, CEO of deCarta from 2004 until its acquisition by Uber in March of 2015

Held executive roles including CEO of Pinnacle Systems Inc, CEO of StorageWay Inc. (VC-funded data storage service provider), Corporate VP of Avaya and Lucent Technologies (responsible for the $2B Communications Applications Group), and an early executive at Octel Communications

Founder & CEO, Phantom Cyber Corporation

Founded Phantom Cyber Corporation (acquired by Splunk for $350M) and Immunet (acquired by Sourcefire in 2010, key component to Cisco’s $2.7B acquisition of Sourcefire in 2013)

Co-founded SecurityFocus (Bugtraq) and previously led DeepSight (world’s first internet early warning system, acquired by Symantec in 2002), Secure Networks, and Ballista (CyberCop) (acquired by McAfee in 1998)

Expertise: Thought-leader in enterprise security focused on preventing system vulnerabilities

Canadian Connection: from Calgary, attended the University of Manitoba

Chairman, Raising Tide Fund

Managed $1B+ of international technology funds, including as EVP of Berkeley International, Chairman of Technocom Ventures, President of Newbridge Networks Holding, and Senior Managing Director of Newbury Ventures

Led the mezzanine financing of 80+ Silicon Valley based IT companies that today has a combined market value exceeding $200B

Expertise: Building technology companies as an entrepreneur, mentor, and venture capitalist

Canadian Connection: Ph.D., M.Sc., and M.B.A. from University of British Columbia

Managing Director, Altos Ventures

Invests primarily in software and digital media companies, including several from Canada (Allocadia, Bench)

Previously led marketing for three startups, including Evolve (acq. by Oracle)

Serves as Chairman of TechSoup (world’s largest non-profit distributor of software and hardware), is a Member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, and is a Member of the Full Circle Fund (venture philanthropy group)

Co-Founder of C100, serves as a C100 Board Director, and Membership Committee Chair

Co-Founder & CEO, inPowered

Founded NetShelter, which became the world’s largest technology property on the web before being acquired by Ziff Davis in 2013

Named to the 2019 Who’s Who in Business Publishing by BtoB’s Media Business Magazine and recipient of Profit 100’s Young Entrepreneur Award for being the youngest CEO on the list of faster growing companies

Co-Founder & COO, Cloudflare

Building a company that provides content delivery network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security and distributed domain name server services

Held positions at Google and Toshiba and launched two successful startups

Named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of the Top 15 Women to Watch in Tech by Inc. magazine, a 40 Under 40 leader by San Francisco Business Times, and Women Who Rule Silicon Valley in ELLE Magazine

Expertise: Building companies focused on web performance and security

Canadian Connection: from Prince Albert (SK), B.S. from McGill University

Toronto & Waterloo Corridor

VP Corporate Development, Shopify

Previously Co-Founder/CEO of Helpful.com (acquired by Shopify), Rypple (acquired by Salesforce and re-branded as Work.com), SVP of Emerging Technology at Salesforce, and on the founding team of Workbrain

Techvibes’ Angel Investor of the Year in 2015 and Founding Partner of the Creative Destruction Lab at the Rotman School

Expertise: Entrepreneur and angel investor building innovative solutions from concept to mainstream adoption

Canadian Connection(s): from Toronto (ON), B.A. from Western University, J.D. & M.B.A. from University of Toronto

Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships, Shopify

Former VC with OMERS Ventures where he worked on 20+ transactions to grow from 1 to 24 investments (including Shopify (IPO), HootSuite, VidYard, PasswordBox (acquired by Intel), BusBud, Hopper, League, and AppHero (acquired by Fuse Powered)

Expertise: Leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for SMEs

Canadian Connection: from Toronto, B.Sc. from McGill University, M.B.A. from University of Toronto

Edmonton

Mobile Development Lead, YouSendIt

Former EIR at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), and Samsung Research of America

Co-founded multiple successful and acquired tech startups

Working on a PhD in Reinforcement Learning (subfield of AI), which augments industry experience in AI while working with SRI and Samsung Research (with various applications of AI)

Expertise: Founding innovative technology startups - most recently in AI through industry experience at SRI and Samsung Research as en EIR as well as in grad school while working with Rich Sutton in the field of reinforcement learning.

Canadian Connection: from Gull Lake (SK), B.A. from University of Regina

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